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“Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.”

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

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“But there’s a big difference between “impossible” and “hard to imagine.” The first is about it; the second is about you!”

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But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

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